Combined intrenching implement and tent-pin puller.



PATENTED MAR. 28, 1905. S. D. DAVIS &: J. H. GULVER.

COMBINED INTRENGHING IMPLEMENT AND TENT PIN FULLER. Armouxon FILED SEPT.19. 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented March 28, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL D. DAVIS, OF WILBER, AND JACOB H. OULVER, OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

COMBINED INTRENCHING IMPLEMENT AND TENT-PIN PULL ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,801, dated March28, 1905.

Application filed September 19, 1904. Serial No. 225,155.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, SAMUEL D. DAVIS, of Wilber, Saline county, and JAooB H. CULvER, of Lincoln, Lancaster county, Nebraska, have invented aCombined Intrenching Implement and Tent-Pin Puller; and we do herebydeclare the following description and drawings heretofore filed assuflieient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to whichit most nearly appertains to make and use our said invention orimprovement without further invention or experiment.

The object of our invention is to provide a combined implement that canbe used as an intrenching implement and also for pulling tent-pins; andit consists of a steel lever having at one end a spade or cutting-bladeand at the other a hand-grip similar to a common spade. On the left sideof this lever or handle at a point eleven inches from the point of thespade or lower end of the lever is attached a steel link five inches inlength and sufficiently wide to pass down over a tent-pin. This link ispivoted to the lever by a bolt which passes through both sides of thelink and through the lever and is held in place by a nut, the holes inthe link being two inches from the upper end. within the link at theupper end, reaching down to within one and one-fourth inches of thelower end of the link, the bolt or pivot connecting the link to thelever constituting a stop for the ratchet-dog and the lower portion ofthe link constituting an abutment, between which and the ratchet-dog anobject may be clamped.

To more fully describe our invention, reference is had to the drawings,with the letters thereon, forming a part of this specification, of whichA ratchetdog is attached.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 show different views of the implement. Fig. A is aside view of the link detached from the lever with ratchet-dog raised;Fig. 5, a sectional top View of the lever and link with ratchet-dogdown; Figs. 6 and 7 ratchet-dog detached.

The letters A, B, and O (shown in Figs. 1 to 7, respectively) are asfollows: A, the lever; B, the link; O, the ratchet-dog and link.

To operate the device as a tent-pin puller, the link is dropped over thepin, the lever being down, and when the lever is raised the ratchet-dogengages the pin, the link tips down at the lower end, the square edgescoming in contact with the opposite side of the pin, forming anabutment. It causes it to grip and firmly hold the pin while it is beingdrawn out.

This implement consists of the above-described partsviz., the lever, thelink, and ratchet-dog combined-and is designed to be used in pullingtent-pins, ditching tents, digging intrenchments, and tunnels and isespecially adapted for digging in hard earth or clay.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Pat' ent, is-

The combination of a lever with a link pivoted thereto, and a dogpivoted within and to the link, the pivot connecting the link to thelever constituting a stop for the dog and a portion of the linkconstituting an abutment between which and the dog an object may heclamped.

SAMUEL D. DAVIS. J. H. OULVER. \Vitnesses:

FRED D. OULVER, ERNEST H. PHELPS.

